March 24

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1882 - Robert Koch announces the discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis (mycobacterium tuberculosis).

Births

1820 - Fanny Crosby - American blind lyricist and political lobbyist. Crosby was best known for the over 9,000 Protestant Christian hymns that she wrote. She was also a lobbyist for the education of the blind and a teacher at the New York Institute for the Blind, now known as the New York Institute for Special Education.[1]

Deaths

2008 - John Slatin - Slatin was the founding Director of the Accessibility Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. John, who is blind, was also the co-chair of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group from 2005 to 2006.[2][3]